The NBN is essentially a new telstra in my mind

What really ****** me off about the NBN is:

1-its become a political platform
2-the ads are ******, hello everyone, you can video conference someone on the other side of the country RIGHT NOW on your PHONE…the ads they have which are essentially telepresence are ridiculous, everything they’ve advertised is achievable right now using free tools
3-having 2 or 10mb/sec vs 100mb/sec will make zero difference to the load speed of a typical web page load time when youre downloading a 100k page
4-there’s been no mention of backhaul or intercountry links…sure, give everyone 100mb/sec from home, that’s great, who’s going to pay for isps to have 10tb/sec out to the rest of the internet
5-quit comparing the price of broadband in australia to other countries – australia has one of the least dense populations in the world so obviously its going to cost more to get internet to everyone, cost is not directly proportional to speed, there are other considerations such as reach and population distribution
6-you cant have an nbn discussion without talking about web filtering, on one hand the government is forking out 43$ bn for faster internet, on the other hand, its investing in web filtering – maybe the nbn is being built to counter the slowdowns caused by the web filtering?

/rant off

I just can’t see that infrastructure being built any other way inside the next 5 years, so if NBN Co. is the only option then I say full steam ahead.